Localizing Adobe Creative Suite 5 Extensions

If you are developing extensions for Creative Suite CS5, you might want to adapt your software to your audience based on their language or specific region. The Creative Suite host applications have been localised to many languages and now you can also localise your extensions so your users will be able to interact with them in their native or preferred language.

Adding multiple locale support doesn’t have to increase your engineering effort. This cookbook recipe explains you how you can localise not only your extension user interface but also the extension configuration.

There is also a sample that puts in practice the steps explained in the cookbook recipe. This image below shows how the same extension can be localised to different languages and also how we can change it’s configuration based on specific locales. The same sample extension is running in an English version of Illustrator, a Japanese version of Flash Pro and a Spanish version of Photoshop.

If you are using Extension Builder, you can download the “Localised” sample by selecting: